Prize winner releases baby lobsters!!

The National Lobster Hatchery ran a joke competition to celebrate World Oceans Day. The winner Haden Dawe received a VIP tour of the hatchery, a giant cuddly lobster and then had the opportunity to assist with the release of 200 baby lobsters at Trevone beach just 2 miles from Padstow.

“These 200 are just a small sample of the 5,000 that we have released so far this season” said Dom. “Yesterday we released 800 from fishing boat Peter John II, owned by Ivor and Cameron Henry out of Mylor on the South Coast using the tube system and we still should have several months left of production still to go this season”.

I am sure that Haden enjoyed his afternoon with us and his joke is now on display at the visitor centre. When we received his joke it made us all laugh – we like a good fishy joke.

“Why did the lobster cross the beach – to get to the other tide”

World Oceans Day was created in 2008 by the United Nations General Assembly.

‘Jet-boost’ aids walking lobsters (Article from Earth News)

 

American lobsters use "jet-assisted" walking to travel faster across the ocean floor, scientists have found.  Click link below for full article.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8214000/8214150.stm